Audience - Wiš'adel

[holyspirits]

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[holyspirits]

I can get up.

[ said like they think they are being told to get up. ]

[sarkazm]

I'm asking if you're going to mope all night! Don't get up.

[holyspirits]

I don't know. I suppose I'll mope until something good happens.

But I can mope on the go.

[sarkazm]

...ugh, fine, get up then. C'mere.

[just heading over to the door to the Cloud Zone, let's go.]

[holyspirits]

[ oh okay! they follow! ]

Why?

[sarkazm]

Because you might as well not do it in a damn cave.

[god. talk about being in the depression hole.

the place she calls up-- it isn't her home. kazdel would probably not be great for ramiel, or so she figures. but it was a sort of home once, and a place she's been familiar with more than once.

it's a bunk on the rhodes island landship, scenery passing by out the window. not exactly the comfiest looking, but this is kind of the best she's got.]

[holyspirits]

[ this is so thoughtful in a way! ramiel does not understand that.

they just peer around the place. ]

Where is this?

[sarkazm]

Rhodes Island landship. I stayed here a while back, and I've been doing some elite ops for 'em recently, so I guess it's gotten pretty familiar.

[holyspirits]

Rhodes Island...? Not Rhode Island?

[ um. looking out the window in increasing confusion. ]

And what are elite ops?

[sarkazm]

Yeah...? It's always been Rhodes, even when it was run by Babel.

[what are they so confused for... she doesn't know an america]

And it's what it sounds like! I work as an elite level operator.

[holyspirits]

Interesting.

What do you operate?

[sarkazm]

...oh, I get it. I'm not a machinery operator.

[amused...]

Rhodes has its own paramilitary forces. That's what I do.

[holyspirits]

[ they are trying to piece together their 3 lore fragments in this 300 piece lore puzzle. ]

And Rhodes fights for the Sarkaz?

[sarkazm]

Soooort of. In the sense that we ended up needing their help, or at least the help of their leader.

[debating how to explain this succinctly.]

They fight for everyone, sort of, and for a cure for the Infected, which most Sarkaz are anyway! But that ends up getting them involved in a lot of conflicts-- so they were smack dab in the middle of our so-called Regent deciding he was going to take out the rest of the damn world.

[holyspirits]

That... sounds complicated. So it's an alliance of necessity, but also dragged you into new conflict? Or... dragged them into an ongoing conflict?

[sarkazm]

They've always been in the middle of conflicts, more or less.

... they're the kind of people who really want to fix the world. Like-- genuinely. Not just for their own benefit.

[holyspirits]

Then it sounds like a very good thing that you were working with them.

[sarkazm]

Yeah, sure, I guess.

The organization they used to be-- Her Highness started it. So in a way, they're what's left of what she wanted to make.

[holyspirits]

Her Highness?

So it's a royal military?

[sarkazm]

Nah. She didn't create Babel under her authority as King, and it wasn't made to be a military. More like-- she knew some things were gonna need force, and it was gonna need a solid defense.

[holyspirits]

[ oh... lady king. NEAT. ]

I'm not sure I understand the distinction. But I suppose every world has such complex and unique history that this isn't a surprise.

[ they peer around the area again. ]

Do you like it here?

[sarkazm]

It's fine. Clean, no exposure to the elements, people mostly leave me alone... plus my old squadmates work on contract with 'em.

[holyspirits]

Your entire squadron didn't join?

[sarkazm]

The ones I used to work under did. Doesn't mean we're contracted at the same times or for the same missions, though.

[holyspirits]

Oh. Well... What sort of missions do you usually do?